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Horoscopes with Proserpina in LeoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Proserpina in Leo. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Paul Deussen (excerpt)
Paul Jakob Deussen (German pronunciation: ; January 7, 1845 – July 6, 1919) was a German Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar. He was influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer. He was also a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche and Swami Vivekananda. In 1911, he founded the Schopenhauer Society (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft). ![]()
Biography of Paul Georges Dieulafoy (excerpt)
Paul Georges Dieulafoy (November 18, 1839 – August 16, 1911) was a French physician and surgeon. He is best known for his study of acute appendicitis and his description of Dieulafoy's lesion, a rare cause of gastric bleeding. Life, studies, and career
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Biography of William Michael Rossetti (excerpt)
William Michael Rossetti (25 September 1829 – 5 February 1919) was an English writer and critic. Born in London, he was a son of immigrant Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti, and the brother of Maria Francesca Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Georgina Rossetti. ![]()
Biography of Beatrice Webb (excerpt)
Martha Beatrice Potter Webb (January 22, 1858 - April 30, 1943) was an English socialist, economist and reformer, usually referred to in the same breath as her husband, Sidney Webb. Although her husband became Baron Passfield in 1929, she refused to be known as Lady Passfield. ![]()
Biography of Etienne-Jules Marey (excerpt)
Étienne-Jules Marey (March 5, 1830 – May 21, 1904) was a French scientist and chronophotographer, born in Beaune, France. His work was significant in the development of cardiology, physical instrumentation, aviation, cinematography and the science of labor photography. He is widely considered to be a pioneer of photography and an influential pioneer of the history of cinema. ![]()
Biography of Pierre De Geyter (excerpt)
Pierre Chretien De Geyter (also known as Pierre Chrétien Degeyter) (Ghent, Belgium, 8 October 1848 (birth time source: André Dekoster, birth certificate n° 2547) – Saint-Denis, France, 26 September 1932) was a socialist (who later became a communist) and a composer, known for writing the music of The Internationale. ![]()
Biography of François Crépin (excerpt)
François Crépin (30 October 1830 in Rochefort, Belgium – 30 April 1903 in Brussels) was an important botanist of the 19th century and director of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium. The genus Crepinella (Araliaceae) is named after him. ![]()
Biography of Axel Munthe (excerpt)
Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe (October 31, 1857, Oskarshamn, Sweden - February 11, 1949, Stockholm) was a Swedish physician and psychiatrist, best known as the author of The Story of San Michele (1929), an autobiographical account of his work and life. Munthe had an international character, speaking several languages (Swedish, English, French, Italian,fluently, and German at least passably), growing up in Sweden, attending medical school and opening his first practice in France, being married to an English aristocrat, and spending most of his adult life in Italy. ![]()
Biography of Edwin Booth (excerpt)
Edwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 – June 7, 1893), was a famous 19th century American actor. He was born near Bel Air, Maryland into the English American theatrical Booth family. Booth toured throughout America and to the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespeare; in 1869 he founded Booth's Theatre in New York, a spectacular theatre that was quite modern for its time. ![]()
Biography of Carl Zeiss (excerpt)
Carl Zeiss (11 September 1816 (birth time source: Taeger cites Arno Müler who quotes evangelisches Pfarramt (church registry)) – 3 December 1888) was an was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman who founded the workshop of Carl Zeiss in 1846, which is still in business today as Carl Zeiss AG.
Biography of Jean-Anne-Henri Depaul (excerpt)
Jean-Anne-Henri Depaul, born July 26, 1811 in Morlaàs (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), died in 1883, was a French physician, surgeon and author.
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Biography of Henry Lerolle (excerpt)
Henry Lerolle, born October 4, 1848 in Paris, died in 1929, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Georges Courteline (excerpt)
Georges Courteline (June 25, 1858 – June 25, 1929) was a French dramatist and novelist. Born Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux, in Tours in the Indre-et-Loire département, his family moved to Paris shortly after his birth. During the time of the Paris Commune, at age 13, he was sent to study at Collège de Meaux and after graduation in 1876, he went on to serve in the French military before taking a job as a civil servant.
Biography of Jacques Doucet (excerpt)
Jacques Doucet (19 February 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) - 30 October 19291929) was a French fashion designer, known for his elegant dresses, made with flimy translucent materials in superimposing pastel colors. He was born in Paris in 1853 to a prosperous family whose lingerie and fine linens business, Doucet Lingerie, had flourished in the Rue de la Paix since 1816. ![]()
Biography of Vincent d'Indy (excerpt)
Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy (March 27, 1851 – December 2, 1931) was a French composer and teacher. Life D'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age but, to please his family, studied law. ![]()
Biography of Charles Lavigerie (excerpt)
Charles Martial Allemand Lavigerie (31 October 1825–26 November 1892) was a French cardinal, archbishop of Carthage and Algiers and primate of Africa. Born at Bayonne, he was educated at St Sulpice, Paris. Ordained a priest in 1849, he was professor of ecclesiastical history at the Sorbonne from 1854 to 1856. ![]()
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St. Joseph is a city in and the county seat of Buchanan County, Missouri. Small parts of St. Joseph extend into Andrew County. Located on the Missouri River, it is the principal city of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buchanan, Andrew, and DeKalb counties in Missouri and Doniphan County, Kansas. ![]()
Biography of Hippolyte Taine (excerpt)
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 5 March 1893) was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism, and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. ![]()
Biography of Castro Alves (excerpt)
Antônio de Castro Alves (March 14, 1847 - July 6, 1871), more commonly known as Castro Alves, was a Brazilian poet best remembered for his abolitionist and republican poems, and is considered one of the most important Brazilian poets of the 19th century. ![]()
Biography of A.P. Sinnett (excerpt)
A.P. Sinnett (18 January 1840 - 26 June 1921) was an author and Theosophist. Sinnett's father died while he was young, by 1851 Sinnett is listed as a "Scholar - London University", living with his widowed mother Jane whose occupation is listed as "Periodical Literature", and his older sister Sophia age 22 who is a teacher. ![]()
Biography of Louis Landouzy (excerpt)
Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy (Reims, March 27, 1845 - May 10, 1917) was a French neurologist from Reims, and whose father and grandfather were also physicians. He studied medicine in Reims and Paris, earning his doctorate in 1876. He spent much his career at the University of Paris, becoming a professor of therapy in 1893 and a dean of medicine in 1901. ![]()
Biography of Joaquim Nabuco (excerpt)
Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo (Recife, August 19, 1849 — Washington, D.C., January 17, 1910) was a Brazilian writer and statesman. Born in Brazil, Joaquim was the son of a wealthy landowner named Jose Thomas Nabuco (1849-1910), who was a major political figure in the Brazilian Empire, becoming a lifetime senator and counselor of state. ![]()
Biography of Carry Nation (excerpt)
Carry Nation, born November 25, 1846 in Little Hickman, Kentucky and died June 9, 1911, was an American social activist.
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Biography of Richard Garnett (excerpt)
Richard Garnett C.B. (27 February 1835 – 13 April 1906) was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. He was son of Richard Garnett, an assistant keeper of Printed Books in the British Museum. Born at Lichfield in England, and educated at a school in Bloomsbury, he entered the British Museum in 1851 as an assistant librarian. ![]()
Biography of Jacques de Dixmude (excerpt)
Jules Marie Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude (February 24, 1858, Stavelot (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) – November 24, 1928) was a Belgian general. He founded Albertville in Congo in 1894. His role in The Congo Free State was questioned in the Casement report.
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Biography of Adolphe Deslandres (excerpt)
Adolphe Édouard Marie Deslandres, born January 22, 1840 in Paris and raised in Batignolles-Monceau, died July 30, 1911 in Paris, was a French composer and organist. Works (extract) * Bajazet et le Joueur de flûte, cantate, 1858 * Ivan IV, cantate, 1860
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Biography of James Manby Gully (excerpt)
Dr James Manby Gully (14 March 1808 – 1883), was a Victorian medical doctor, well known for practising hydrotherapy, or the "water cure". Along with his partner James Wilson, he founded a very successful "hydropathy" (as it was then called) clinic in Malvern, Worcestershire, which had many notable Victorians, including such figures as Charles Darwin and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as clients. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Godin (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste André Godin (January 26, 1817-1888) was a French industrialist and social experimentor born on the 26th of January 1817 at Esquéhéries (Aisne). The son of an artisan, he entered an iron-works at an early age, and at seventeen made a tour of France as journeyman.
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Biography of Paul Sabatier (excerpt)
Paul Sabatier (November 5, 1854 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – August 14, 1941) was a French chemist, born at Carcassonne. He taught science classes most of his life before he became Dean of the Faculty of Science in 1905.
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Biography of John Augustus Sutter (excerpt)
Johann Augustus Sutter (February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.
Biography of Karl Zacharia (excerpt)
Karl Zacharia, born December 21, 1812 in Heidelberg, died June 3, 1894, was a German writer and researcher. Bibliography William Fischer: Zachariae von Lingenthal, Karl Eduard. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, S. 653–657. ![]()
Biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (excerpt)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. Noted for his long service, his concise and pithy opinions, and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for his "clear and present danger" majority opinion in the 1919 case of Schenck v.
Biography of George Sutcliffe (excerpt)
George Sutcliffe, born March 21, 1859 in Elland and died in 1933, was a British theosophist, writer and astrologer.
Biography of Paul Lacuria (excerpt)
French priest Paul Lacurian, born January 6, 1806 in Lyon, died in 1890, was a theosopher, occulist, and writer. ![]()
Biography of Frederick III, German Emperor (excerpt)
Frederick III (Frederick William Nicholas Charles, German: Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl; October 18, 1831 – June 15, 1888), (German: Friedrich III., Deutscher Kaiser und König von Preußen) was German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling for 99 days until his death in 1888. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Detaille (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille (October 5, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) - December 23, 1912), was a French Academic painter and military artist noted for his precision and realistic detail. Detaille was a student of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier. He served in the French Army in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and became the official painter of the battles. ![]()
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Springfield is the third largest city in the state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 159,498. As of 2019, the Census Bureau estimated its population at 167,882. It is the principal city of the Springfield metropolitan area, which has a population of 462,369 and includes the counties of Christian, Dallas, Greene, Polk, and Webster. ![]()
Biography of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders (excerpt)
Prince Philippe of Belgium, Count of Flanders (Philippe Eugène Ferdinand Marie Clément Baudouin Léopold Georges (French) or Filips Eugeen Ferdinand Marie Clemens Boudewijn Leopold Joris (Dutch); 24 March 1837-17 November 1905) was the third born (but second surviving) son of King Leopold I of the Belgians and his wife Louise Marie d'Orleans (1812-1850). ![]()
Biography of Armand Trousseau (excerpt)
Armand Trousseau (October 14, 1801 — June 27, 1867) was a notable French internist. His contributions to medicine include Trousseau sign of malignancy, Trousseau sign of latent tetany, Trousseau-Lallemand bodies (an archaic synonym for Bence Jones cylinders), and the truism, "use new drugs quickly, while they still work. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Albert Roche (excerpt)
Édouard Albert Roche (October 17, 1820-April 18, 1883) was a French scientist, who is best known for his work in the field of celestial mechanics. He gave his name to the concepts of the Roche sphere, Roche limit and Roche lobe. ![]()
Biography of Paul Mansion (excerpt)
Paul Mansion, born June 3, 1844 in Huy, died April 16, 1919 in Ghent, was a Belgian mathematician, the father of philosopher Augustin Mansion. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. ![]()
Biography of Justus von Liebig (excerpt)
Justus von Liebig (12 May 1803 – 18 April 1873) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and worked on the organization of organic chemistry. As a professor, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching method, and for such innovations, he is regarded as one of the greatest chemistry teachers of all time.
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Biography of Gaston Paris (excerpt)
Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris (August 9, 1839 – March 5, 1903), known as Gaston Paris, was a French writer and scholar. Biography Paris was born at Avenay (Marne). In his childhood, he learned to appreciate Old French romances as poems and stories, and this early impulse for the study of Romance literature was placed on a solid basis by courses of study at Bonn (1856) and at the École des chartes. ![]()
Biography of Ambroise Thomas (excerpt)
(Charles Louis) Ambroise Thomas (Metz August 5, 1811 - Paris, February 12, 1896) was a French opera composer, best-known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868, after Shakespeare) and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871-1896. Early life and studies ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Faure (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Faure, born January 15, 1830 in Moulins, died in 1914, was a French baritone.
Biography of James Coats (excerpt)
James Coats, born September 5, 1843 in Belfast, was an Irish mesmerist, magnetizer and author. ![]()
Biography of Edward Lear (excerpt)
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator and writer known for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form which he popularised. Edward Lear was born into a middle class family in Highgate, the 20th child of Ann and Jeremiah Lear.
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Biography of Patrice de Mac-Mahon (excerpt)
Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de Mac-Mahon, 1st Duc de Magenta, Marshal of France (13 June 1808 - 17 October 1893) was a French general and politician. He served as Chief of State of France from 1873 to 1875 and as the first president of the Third Republic, from 1875 to 1879.
Biography of Jeanne Maillot (excerpt)
Jeanne Maillot, born on April 28, 1860 in Lille and died on July 16, 1940, was a figure in the French political world. She was the wife of Henri de Gaulle, the father of Charles de Gaulle, and the mother of Charles de Gaulle. ![]()
Biography of Edmond Gondinet (excerpt)
Edmond Gondinet (March 7, 1828; Laurière – November 19, 1888; Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French playwright and librettist. This author, nearly forgotten today, produced forty plays of which several were successful. He collaborated with Alphonse Daudet and Eugène Labiche, among others. Plays (extract) |
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